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My Most Anticipated New Release Romance Books of 2026
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items These are the new release romance books I will drop everything to read in 2026. It’s a love story, baby just say yes to these love stories
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Contemporary Romances that will have you dancing through life
Sports Romances that will have you swinging for the fences
Romantasys that will transport you to another world
Dark Romances that will have you questioning your morals
Summer Romance reads that make the perfect beach read
Young Adult Romances that will turn you into a giddy school girl
Contemporary Romances that will have you dancing through life
These are the romance books I will drop everything to read next year
Ashley is so good at writing magical realism. This book should be adorable. It’s a romance about a woman who goes to update an old estate, when a door appears. Inside she finds a secret garden and a man inside. June 16. Preorder now
The Someday Garden (Signed Book)|Signed Book
A second chance romance about a couple who have to find their way back to each other after a traumatic accident threatens to break them apart. March 3. Preorder now
No Matter What: A Novel|Paperback
This is book six in the dream harbor series and is based around a flow shop. These books are always so spicy. Laurie Gilmore knows what she’s doing when she writes a forbidden romance. May 5th. Preorder now
The Daisy Chain Flower Shop (Dream Harbor, Book 6)|Paperback
A small town romance where the female main character will stop at nothing to make her clients new book a huge hit. She’s not ready to settle down, but her hot landlord is looking for a wife. However, when they hook up one night will it turn things aw...
Mistakes Were Made (Deluxe Edition)|BN Exclusive
A romance about a woman who has gone through an amicable divorce where she’s even still friends with her ex. However, she gets invited to her ex sister-in-law’s wedding and meets the best man. April 7
The Paris Match|Paperback
The next book in the Ravenhood Legacy series about a man who collides with a woman who challenges him like no other. Will she be his undoing? May 26
Birds of a Feather|Paperback
When her sister gets an acting role in their hometown they send a bodyguard to her house to help keep the paparazzi away. A hot bodyguard who ghosted her once, but now had to stay with her, with one bed. March 3
It Seemed Like a Good Idea (Deluxe Edition)|Paperback
Colleen Hoover for a lot of people back into reading with her novels and her new one is a romance thriller about a film writer and detective. January 13
Woman Down: A Novel|Paperback
A story about two sisters that go on a road trip to discover if the painting they received from their late mother is real or not and if they just made bank. June 2
Road Trip|Hardcover
Sports Romances that will have you swinging for the fences
Can they score? These sports romances leave it all on the field.
Monty was such a great character in The Windy City Series and now he gets his own book. She owns the team and he is the coach. He’s set in his way and doesn’t like to be told what to do. What could go wrong? March 3. Preorder now.
In Her Own League|Paperback
The last book in the series. I’m so ready for the grumpy goalkeeper, Noah. Noah’s daughter is everything to him, but instead of putting his mask on first, he seems to full focus all his energy on her and not enough on himself. That is until he meets ...
The Keeper (Deluxe Edition) (B&N Exclusive Edition) (Gods of the Game #3)|BN Exclusive
An enemies-to-lovers spicy novella set in the world of video. Gaming can bring out the competitive side in all of us. February 10. Preorder now
Two Can Play|Audiobook
Book 5 in the Big Shots series is a new baseball romance. It’s adult fiction with spice and I can’t wait to see what happens. January 20. Preorder now
Catch Her If You Can: A Novel (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive
This sports romance really hits home about a girl who is trying her best to make it to the Olympics and is training with a hometown coach to get her there. This is an opposites attract sports romance. February 10
Racing Hearts: A Novel|Paperback
I love a grumpy-sunshine, but add in sports romance and I’m in. A sports romance with a fake dating trope. One thing is for sure, Meghan Quinn writes hilarious novels and ai can’t wait to crack up while reading this. February 3
Just for the Cameras (Deluxe Edition)|Paperback
A cowboy romance that is childhood crush and brother’s best friend. She wants to be a barrel racer, but he first go in the ring lands in disaster, but can he put the pieces back together? April 7
Ryder (Deluxe Edition)|Paperback
A sports romance about a pro quarterback and actress. A childhood friends to lovers with forced proximity about a man still holding a grudge for getting his heart broken. February 10
And the Crowd Went Wild: A Chicago Stars Novel|Hardcover
The fourth book in the series about a grumpy best friend’s brother. He’s an Irish rugby player who annoys her more than anything. May 26
Bad Boy Era|Paperback
Romantasys that will transport you to another world
These high-stakes fantasy plots with a sweet romantic dynamic make an amazingly good romantasy novel
This is the second book in the Souls of Shadow series about love, gods, magic and monsters. Specifically, vampires, which I love. March 10. Preorder now.
Heart of Mischief: Soul of Shadow: Book Two|Hardcover
Book 2 in the Shield of Sparrows series. I am so excited for this book. Devney Perry is an amazing romance author and now an amazing romantacy author. This is an adult fantasy romance with spice and magic. April 7. Preorder now.
Rites of the Starling|Hardcover
Love Quicksilver? Book 3 in this popular romantacy series comes out November 10. This is an adult fantasy romance with spice and magic. Preorder now
Fae & Alchemy Book 3 (Deluxe Limited Edition)|Hardcover
The first book in the series was so good and I cannot wait for this book. This is an adult gothic fantasy romance. September 1. Preorder now
The Knave and the Moon (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive
This is set in the same world as the Shatter Me series. It’s a dystopian, enemies to lovers that is set 10 years later. April 7. Preorder now.
Release Me (Deluxe Limited Edition)|Special
I congratulate anyone who is able to write a book and with this being her debut novel!? That’s incredible. It’s a slow-burn fantasy romance that’s so original. January 13.
A Vow in Vengeance|Hardcover
A new romantasy by Alex Aster about a realm that was split in two and every 50 years the gates open for the morals to fight for some of the magic on the other side. March 31
Starside (Deluxe Limited Edition) (Signed B&N Exclusive Book)|Signed Exclusive
Dark Romances that will have you questioning your morals
A romance that blends spicy romantic comedy with emotional drama that make you question your own morality.
I love a good dark romance. It’s one genre I just started to read and it’s intoxicating. This is an adult dark romance with spice. Please check your trigger warnings. March 30. Preorder now
My Dreadful Darling
The third installment of this series. It’s a great way to get your heart rate up. This is an adult dark romance with spice. With any dark romance please check the warnings at the beginning of the book. March 31. Preorder now
Game On (B&N Exclusive Edition) (Into Darkness Series #3)|BN Exclusive
The third installment in the series. Rona Kent is a popular dark romance writer and I’m so excited for this book. It’s a sexy dark romance with spice. June 9. Preorder now
Tempting Venom (Deluxe Edition)|BN Exclusive
A dark romance where our moral gray male main character is asked to delve in human trafficking, but meets a girl that changes everything. January 20
Blood & Roses Volume 1|Paperback
Summer Romance reads that make the perfect beach read
A sun-drenched, fleeting love story with classic tropes had me adding these to my tbr straight away
This is a romantic comedy, summer romance about longing and figuring out how to get everything you want without hurting the people you love. March 24. Preorder now
The Night We Met (Deluxe Edition)|Hardcover
Carley Fortune writes the best summer romances. This is a friends to lovers, summer romance. May 5. Preorder now
Our Perfect Storm (Signed Book)|Signed Book
I loved her most recent release. It was so cute and I can’t wait for this one. This is a summer beach read I can’t wait to put on my summer tbr. May 26. Preorder now
Dolly All the Time|Paperback
A summer romance where a girl runs into a high school crush that she confessed her love to. The problem is it didn’t go the way she thought it would. She’s spending the summer at a cabin in Tahoe and runs into him. He who has thought about her ever s...
Love Song (Deluxe Edition) (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive
A second chance summer romance about a couple who pretend they are still together for a final family trip before they get divorced. January 27
Sunk in Love|Paperback
Young Adult Romances that will turn you into a giddy school girl
A good YA romance captures your heart with witty banter and great chemistry. These books will leave you feeling giddy
This is the final book in the series of a young adult mystery, fantasy. It is by the same author who wrote the Inheritance Games. July 14. Preorder now
The Gilded Blade (Signed B&N Exclusive Book)|Signed Exclusive
This is a new YA baseball, sports romance. It also is about a theater kid. March 3 and is for anyone who loves Carly Fortune. Preorder now
Meet Me Under the Lights by Cassie Miller, Paperback
This is a such a cute YA paranormal, mystery romance about to academic rivals that are ghosts trapped in a house together. May 5. Preorder now.
You're Dead to Me, Reed Walker|Hardcover
I can’t imagine having to sit on a 13-hour flight next to my ex, can you? And then they start to bring up the past and make you feel like they aren’t over you? January 13
We've Hit Turbulence|Paperback
Historical Fiction Romances that will leaving you thinking you live in the wrong century
Whether it is Regency, Victorian, Scottish, or Americana, these are my most anticipated historical romances!
An academy that makes sure women can strive for advancement without men being able to discredit them. November 25
The Marriage Method|Paperback
This is a historical fiction romance with pirates and I can’t get enough of that. I love historical fiction, but add in pirates and romance? Yes please! June 23. Preorder now
Scandal of the Summer: A Novel|Paperback
This is about a woman who marries and escapes to the Scottish Highlands where she meets her now husband’s mistress, his illegitimate daughter and a ghost or two. When her husband dies she must navigate her life and all the mysteries her husband left ...
The Last Lady B|Paperback
This is book 2 in the Princes of London series and is about a treasure hunter and a woman who battle over a Viking Hoard. March 31.
The Scoundrel and the Siren: A Novel|Paperback
Matilda and Margo are cut from a different cloth then the rest of the ton and they are dead set on doing things their way, but this time it may have caught up to them. February 17. Preorder now
The Halifax Hellions|Paperback
Another debut novel about an immortal woman who meets a time traveler and falls in love over centuries. She wish to be immortal and this story is about her learning if love can rewrite the rules of time. February 24
All We Have Is Time: A Novel|Hardcover
Enemies to Lovers Romances that blue the line between love and hate
Enemies to lovers is one of my favorite tropes when it’s built by hate and fueled by tension
This story is Sebastian and Maya’s. When the man is Gluttonous what does that mean for the girl? It’s an enemies to lovers, billionaire romance, with smut. It’s out April 28. Preorder now
King of Gluttony (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive
I love a strong man who shows vulnerability. This is giving lake-side romance and grown-up longing. The man wants her, but will he do everything to finally get her? This is out May 19. Preorder now
Fever Dream: A Novel|Paperback
About a pair who haven’t liked each other since college, but now she’s being asked to help him through a PR disaster. Fake dating and awesome banter. April 14
While You Were Seething: A Novel|Paperback
A fake dating romance where two neuroscientists fake date for a conference so that the female male character can upstage her ex. February 3
Love and Other Brain Experiments: A Novel|Paperback
Friends to Lovers Romances where waiting for the right moment is a virtue
Friends to lovers is one of the best trope because you can feel the tension that’s built up over so much time of longing and yearning and they finally find the finish line
Katherine Center writes great romances with no spice for those who don’t like spicy books. It’s an adult fiction, romantic comedy. This is out May 19. Preorder now.
The Shippers: A Novel|Hardcover
A friendship that began as a lie when the two main character start to fake date to dupe their exes. This is out April 14. Preorder now
Happy Ending|Paperback
Two former best friends are forced to work at a coffee shop, four years after they tried to date. Can the force proximity create another spark? March 3
Just Friends: A Novel|Paperback
A brothers best friend romance where the female main character goes through and breakup with her high school sweetheart that she spent all her big milestones with a wants to redo them. Out January 27
The Re-Do List|Paperback
Single Parent Trope Romances I can’t get enough of and would want to
These single parent tropes given me that loving feeling and led me to adding them to my tbr so fast
The writers most recent series just end and now we have a new one. This will be the first out of 5 books in this series. The audiobooks will be amazing with a full cast of characters starting with book one. This is out March 3. Preorder now.
Across the Vanishing Sky (Deluxe Edition)|Paperback
Forbidden Romances where when you say I can’t it just makes me want to do it more
If you tell someone no they will just want to do it more. It’s the perfect set up
A student/ professor contemporary romance about a girl who starts to fall for her psychology teacher. I love a forbidden romance. July 14
Extracurricular|Paperback
Workplace Romances where it’s naughty to date a coworker
Witty banter, forced proximity, and a mix of professional tension with undeniable personal chemistry is why I added these to my tbr so fast
She is boss and they must work together to make sure this hockey team is the best they can possibly be. What could go wrong? This is out February 3. Preorder now
The Wild Card: A Vancouver Storm Novel|Paperback
When opposites attract and two colleagues must figure out how to work together. I love a good workplace romance. This comes out February 24. Preorder now
And Now, Back to You|Paperback
What if you were forced to work with your childhood crush to save your career? I love a sports romance, but add forced proximity and friends to lovers? Yea please. This is out January 6. Preorder now
Drive Me Crazy|Paperback
After a bad breakup in high school, a couple must work together on a movie set and try to get along. I love a good workplace romance and a second chance romance. May 19
Score|Paperback
LGBTQ stories that you will see rainbows and unicorns reading
These lgbtq stories are incredible ways to show how love is love no matter the person
This is a MM dark romance about fighting for your future and fighting for love and I absolutely love that. February 10. Preorder now
Promise Me|Paperback
A lgbtq sports romance to start the year off. I love a good sports romance. This is a workplace romance with spice. January 6. Preorder now
Playing for Keeps: A Novel by Alexandria Bellefleur ...
A MM romance where an event planner planning a high profile wedding discovers that the man of honor is the same man that broke his heart. Will they get a second chance at love? January 27
Last First Kiss: A Novel|Paperback
Two professional wrestlers who can fight the attraction between them. Um, yes please. MM lgbtq sports romance I can’t get enough of. Out March 31.
Hold Me Like a Grudge|Paperback